CEDA Events on Centre for Environmental Data Analysis

Introduction to Scientific Computing Course 2025

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Dates

Course	Date	Location
Introduction to the bash shell (Unix/Linux)	Tuesday 4th November, 09:30 - 16:00	Online
Introduction to Python programming	Monday 17th November, 10:00 - Wednesday 19th November, 12:00	Leeds
Python programming – working with data & Introduction to Git/GitHub	Wednesday 19th November, 13:00 - Friday 21st November, 16:00	Leeds

Find out more information and apply here!

The Introduction to Scientific Computing (ISC) course covers the skills needed to start using the Linux Shell and Python in environmental science research. The course is designed for complete beginners as well as those with a little experience who wish to further their knowledge. Some prerequisite Python knowledge is necessary to study the “Python Programming – Working with Data” module. On the final day of the “Working with Data” module there will be two parallel sessions focussing, respectively, on the use of atmospheric science data and earth observation data. Students may join either session depending on their own learning needs and preferences.

JASMIN User Conference 2025

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We have reluctantly taken the decision NOT to go ahead with the current plan for the JASMIN User Conference scheduled for 1-2 October 2025. Low registration numbers meant that an in-person event was not viable in its planned format.

JASMIN Webinar - March 2025

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

On Wednesday 26th March, 10.00 - 12.00 GMT The CEDA//JASMIN team will be presenting a webinar to provide an update and describe new services available on JASMIN. Following the presentations there will be a Q&A session with the speakers and other members of the JASMIN team to give you an opportunity to ask questions.

JASMIN Training Workshop

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

On Thursday 28th November 09:00-15:30 BST We will be running a JASMIN training workshop, aimed at new and intermediate users.

Celebrating 30 years of CEDA - Help us imagine our future

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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Register here to attend this event!

Join us for a special event marking 30 years of the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis! Over the past three decades, we’ve been dedicated to providing data and information services for environmental science through world-class data curation services, flexible technologies for data analysis and our contributions to national and international communities.

Introduction to Sceintific Computing Course - 2024

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Find out more and apply here!

JASMIN Group Workspace Managers Webinar

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

If you were unable to attend the webinar then you can watch a recording here on our youtube channel!

Of if you’d prefer you can view the slides here.

Thank you all for attending the Groupworkspaces Managers Webinar which explained more about the GWS Managers survey and its aims and new tools available to GWS managers to help with managing their workspace(s).

JASMIN User Seminar Series

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Update January 2024: Thanks to all who previously contributed to this seminar series. We have restarted this series with the latest webinar having occuring on Tuesday 6th February at 1pm! Please contact us if you have an idea for a talk!

Talk	Speaker	Abstract	Date
Advancing Water Resources Research: Use of JASMIN in Hydrological Innovation & Computing for Climate: JASMIN’s Impact on Hydroclimatic Risk Science	Representatives from the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology	–	February 2024
Data Management of Multi-Model Climate Simulations from PRIMAVERA at JASMIN	Jon Seddon, UK Met Office		January 2021
Oceans in the Cloud: working interactively with huge datasets using Pangeo	Andrew Meijers, British Antarctic Survey		January 2021
PRISE and Peatlands	Jane Lewis, Assimila		February 2021
Evaluating aerosols in the UK Earth System Model using observational ensembles	Adam Povey, National Centre for Earth Observation and University of Oxford		February 2021
Using the JASMIN Unmanaged Cloud for UKCA Training	Luke Abraham, National Centre for Atmospheric Science & Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge		March 2021
Unsupervised classification of mesoscale cloud organisation with neural networks	Leif Denby, University of Leeds		March 2021
COMET LiCSAR system for measuring tectonic and volcanic deformation by Sentinel-1 interferometry (part 1)	Milan Lazecký, Centre for Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics (COMET), University of Leeds		May 2021
COMET LiCSAR system for measuring tectonic and volcanic deformation by Sentinel-1 interferometry (part 2)	Yasser Maghsoudi Mehrani, Centre for Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics (COMET), University of Leeds		May 2021
Ground deformation detection using convolutional neural networks on InSAR data	Pui Anantrasirichai, University of Bristol		June 2021
DataLabs: Opening up environmental data science in the 21st Century	Mike Holloway, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology		June 2021
How climateprediction.net uses JASMIN: development, data storage, analysis, and collaboration	Sarah Sparrow, Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford University		July 2021
Transforming environmental research in the public sector with the use of JASMIN	Cathy Jin and Gwawr Jones, Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)		July 2021

Communicating Climate Uncertainty Workshop

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

On November 30, CEDA staff and the Climateurope2 project are organizing a workshop on Uncertainty to discuss how users of climate information deal with uncertainties and how providers of climate services should communicate about uncertainties in ways that enable users to extract the information they need. This workshop is intended for anyone involved in the practice of climate services and dealing with communicating uncertainties, or simply interested in this topic.

Introduction to Scientific Computing Course

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

You will be tutored by experts from the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis who solve scientific data challenges on a daily basis.

JASMIN Conference 2023

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We will be hosting the next JASMIN conference at our host institute on the Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire. It will occur over two half days on the afternoon of Wednesday 1 and the morning of Thursday 2 November 2023.

Webinar - JASMIN's new GPU cluster, ORCHID

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The webinar was open to all JASMIN users, but was of particular interest to those embarking on research involving machine learning techniques, or who have been seeking GPU resources for use in their work. Further details, including links to slides and recordings can be found below.

Jupyter Notebooks for Capacity Development Webinar

Fri, 30 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

CEDA represents UKSA/NCEO on the Committee Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) - this group hosted a virtual event called: Jupyter Notebooks for Capacity Development Webinar in July 2021.

Working on JASMIN - a hands-on workshop

Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

CEDA regularly run hands-on interactive workshops for users of JASMIN. Past event details can be seen below. Resources used in the workshops can be found here.

Using CEDA for Air Quality Research - STFC Air Quality Network event

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

CEDA staff presented a webinar to members of the STFC Air Quality Network on 20th January 2021. The session covered an introduction to using the CEDA Archive and JASMIN for air quality research.

Demo of the JASMIN Notebook Service webinar

Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In this webinar, we will talk you through some of the JASMIN Notebook Service’s key features.

The JASMIN Notebook service provides access to Jupyter Notebooks in the web browser. A Jupyter Notebook is an interactive document containing live code, documentation and visualisations that can be run and edited in a web browser.

Using Python on JASMIN webinar

Sat, 14 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

This webinar explored four case studies for using Python on JASMIN. In a 1 hour webinar, we cannot teach the entire Python language to beginners - but we hope our examples will give you an idea of the things Python can be used for to do science-related coding. Each case study is represented as a Python script that you could run interactively on JASMIN.

Designing efficient workflows on LOTUS webinar

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

This webinar demonstrates two workflows for using LOTUS*. The first example will show you how to build a workflow that can be re-submitted without re-running previously completed tasks and which reports failures in a traceable way. The second example will help you learn how to submit, monitor, and control high throughput workloads using the LSF “job array” utility. Both examples aim to increase users understanding of how to use LOTUS efficiently.

An introduction to NAG & NAG/Python interface on JASMIN workshop

Wed, 28 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

NAG have just announced the availability of the new NAG Library for Python. The re-engineering of the NAG Library for Python offers many usability improvements enabling quicker application development including, self-contained routine documentation, thread-safety, curated examples demonstrating important algorithmic and Python-related functionality, support for native Python callbacks and C language routine equivalents giving a unified route from prototyping in Python to deploying as compiled code.  

Git and GitHub webinars

Thu, 01 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This webinar provides an introduction to using Git and GitHub to manage, share and backup your code. We will discuss:

Why you should use version control
What GitHub is
How to get started with GitHub
Additional useful commands

At the end of the webinar you should be able to organise your code into a git repository and see it on GitHub along with knowing how to edit and update the repository. This will allow you to keep track of changes and easily share your code with others. This is a basic introduction, a more detailed look is found down below.

Introduction to LOTUS - JASMIN's batch computing cluster webinar

Wed, 17 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

LOTUS is a JASMIN* service which enables efficient scheduling of large scale data analysis tasks. This is useful for researchers wanting to improve or change their workflows for carrying out tasks such as processing high resolution climate simulations, tracking tropical cyclones or other data intensive tasks.

Give us your data - how to prepare your research for the CEDA Archive webinar

Thu, 27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This webinar focussed on how researchers can prepare their research for the CEDA Archive*, covering the following topics:

Who we are
Data Management Planning
Metadata
Preparing data (formats)
How to submit data

Anyone with an interest in uploading data to CEDA will benefit from watching this video.

JASMIN Conference 2018

Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction Conference Programme

Introduction

The third JASMIN user Conference on Advanced Computing for Environmental Science was held on 27th June 2018 at Milton Hill House, with additional training workshop sessions on the following day at JASMIN's host institution, the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) on 28th June 2018, with attendees from universities and research institutions across the UK and further afield.

Selected conference presentations are available to download or watch in video form from the links within the programme below.

Getting started with JASMIN webinar

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This webinar focussed on how new users can ‘get started’ on JASMIN, a globally unique data intensive supercomputer for environmental science.

Covering the following topics:

JASMIN Conference 2017

Tue, 27 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction Conference Programme

Introduction

The second JASMIN Conference on Advanced Computing for Environmental Science was held at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) on 27th and 28th June 2017, with attendees from universities and research institutions across the UK and further afield.

Selected conference presentations are available to download or watch in video form from the links within the programme below.

JASMIN Conference 2016

Mon, 27 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for coming to the JASMIN user conference!

A big thank you to all who attended and contributed to our first JASMIN User Conference, held at RAL on 27/28 June 2016. Over two days, we shared information about the current scale and capabilities of JASMIN, heard about some of the data-intensive science going on right now, and learned about other environmental science challenges which could be helped by using JASMIN.

JASMIN virtual event 2020

Mon, 27 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

A virtual event was run at the end of September, as a replacement for the JASMIN conference that was due to take place earlier this year. The event took place on the mornings of Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th September.

The JASMIN team provided an update to users about key services and new developments which we have been working on over the last year. See draft timetable below for more information.

The event was recorded - the full videos are available on our YouTube channel. Cropped recordings of each individual talk are linked in the table below. All slides are available here and the unanswered questions from the Q&A session are here.

Transitioning to SLURM webinar

Mon, 27 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

SLURM has become the officially supported batch scheduler on JASMIN from the end of June 2020. All batch jobs and workflows needed to be modified in order to use the batch scheduler SLURM and the CentOS7 LOTUS cluster. This webinar gave an overview of what this change means for users and provide an opportunity to answer any questions you may have. Here is the SLURM documentation.

JASMIN Launch Event 2014

Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

(copy of STFC web note released at the JASMIN Launch event on Monday 2nd June 2014)

UK science community to benefit from major cloud computing and storage upgrade

STFC and NERC today (2 June 2014) celebrate the completion of a major upgrade to the JASMIN data analysis infrastructure that plays a key role in the assessment and evaluation of huge sets of environmental data produced by the UK scientific community.

JASMIN Forum 2012

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

On 25 September 2012, NCAS hosted a research forum at Reading University to address the challenges of large scale data analysis in the numerical weather prediction, oceanographic and climate science community. The forum heard presentations about many NCAS activities including UPSCALE, CASCADE, HiGEM and WISER as well as presentations from the EO, atmospheric composition and oceanographic perspectives.